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3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Simple but compact and excellent, 2008-01-07
I picked the Shuffle for my wife because she wanted an simple music player, had no interest in pictures or videos, and needed a device that was easy to sync with straightforward software. I have experience with several MP3 players used on Windows platforms, and I knew she would be frustrated with the downloading issues. The Shuffle works perfectly. It is easy to sync with iTunes, it is very compact and can be clipped to a T-shirt, it holds plenty of music for her purposes, and the sound quality is great. If you want just music, a compact device, and simple operations, the Shuffle is for you.
Perfect for working out, 2008-01-07
This thing rocks - perfect for what I bought it for - working out. You can just clip it to the bottom of your shirt - don't need an armband or waistband of any of that stuff. No issues and battery life has been extremely impressive compared to my old shuffle.
6 of 37 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great product...but wouldn't buy here again, 2008-01-06
I love my shuffle. I use it for playing podcasts and audiobooks, rather than music, and for this it is perfect.
My Dad also enjoys podcasts and audiobooks, so I bought one for him for his birthday...since he lives a thousand miles away, I bought it through Amazon. Big mistake there.
Oh, the box got to him on time...but the box was empty except for bubble wrap and an invoice. I guess someone in shipping wanted an iPod.
When I called about this, they did replace the iPod, but would not expedite the shipping so my Dad could get it in time for his Birthday...they did literally the least they could do without legal liability. So much for customer service.
So, my lesson is learned. I've been buying gifts for far flung friends and family through Amazon for years. Never again.
6 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Expensive for what it is., 2008-01-05
I won my iPod shuffle, so I didn't have to pay $75 for it. After playing with it for a few hours, I could not imagine paying $75 for it. It has virtually no features, and only holds 1GB of music. For the same price, you can get a full featured MP3 player that holds 2 to 4 times as much music. With that being said, what the Shuffle can do, it does fairly well. It's also very tiny, so that might be a plus to some. I give it 4 stars for not costing me anything, and working well.
Edit: The average price of the "Shuffle" has dropped below $50. IMO it is now a decent buy for what it is.
20 of 23 customers found the following review helpful:
 THE UNTENDED UNDERLING IN THE iPOD FAMILY, 2008-01-05
I wanted to buy a no-nonsense mp3 player to keep me company while running. No video, no funky display menus, no labyrinthine software to work with. If I wanted to spend half a day getting my music in order I'd shell for the 80 gig iPod.
So I got myself a Shuffle, by far the sleekest small pod in the market.
But boy did I regret it.
After the one-time registration and initialization (which is not optional) the lemon wouldn't get the songs on it, thanks to the infamous "Disk not found error". Googled for it and discovered websites that are brimming with untended complaints; I'm on Windows XP, but the glitch seems to pervade operating systems.
Spent a day battling with the idiosyncrasies. Downloaded and installed an extra utility that Apple's Help site recommends. Enabled the Shuffle "for disk use". Reset it to factory settings and tried all over again, five times. And I'm a fairly persistent tech-savvy one. I did everything that's needed and more, but the stupid thing will still not remember the settings, will not let me change songs, and so on.
Tired with all of this rigmarole, I got a Creative Zen Stone Plus. It's a little larger than the Shuffle, but you can see why--Shuffle doesn't have a display and it uses the same jack for charging and earphones so you can only do one of those at a time. Stone Plus on the other hand connects through a small non-spaghetti USB cable, comes up instantly as a new drive on your PC, you copy the mp3 files from your music folder to this drive, and you're done.
I was up and running in 5 minutes flat. Can't help kicking myself for having fallen for the iPod luster.
Without becoming any clunkier in any meaningful way (both the doohickeys are pretty small), Stone Plus shows me the song that's playing, which I don't see on Shuffle. Stone Plus has an FM radio, a voice recorder, a timer, and a digital clock--none of which the Shuffle has. It charges in 5 minutes, which the Shuffle doesn't. I can use iTunes or any other tool or even nothing at all, but with Shuffle I am in an unhappy marriage with iTunes. The Stone Plus will hold about 1000 songs in comparison to Shuffle's 200 at the same bit-rate.
Because this is Creative, the company known among geeks for its speakers, the ear phones that come with the Stone Plus have a fabulous combination of bass and treble that will please the most fastidious connoisseur. After hearing them Shuffle's white thingies sound tinny and childish. I got my Stone Plus with a clip that makes it much more practical for running.
And all of it at 60% of the cost of a basic bare-bones Shuffle.
Sorry, Apple folks, in the small-mp3-player market Apple is simply the beautiful blond bimbo who trips on high heels at ten paces. If you're in the market for a nifty little mp3 player, skip the Shuffle. Even in the 3rd generation it's a 3rd rate contender.
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